# Objection Of The Papists, By Means Of Three Passages.

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But, in order to maintain the aforementioned succession,
the Papists are accustomed to say, that they
do not reckon the same from the antiquity of some
erring spirits who were before, in, or after the time
of the apostles; but from the church of Christ itself,
and from Peter, whom they styled the prince of the
apostles, upon whom Christ himself, as they asserted,
wished to build his church. Bell. lib. 1. de
pont Rom. cap. 10. Quansuys ex.

To this they add as a second argument, that to
him, and no other, were given, by Christ, the keys
of heaven, to open or to close the same according
to his pleasure.

And, thirdly, that the Lord thrice commanded
him—more than the other apostles—to feed his
flock, that is, his church.

Moreover, that he occupied the Roman throne,
and that the popes succeeded him therein.

To prove this supremacy of Peter, and, consequently,
the succession of the popes in his place,
they have, for a long time already, misused three
passages of holy Scripture, namely Matt. 16:18,19;
and John 21:15–17; to which we will reply in
the following.



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